A review of Northwest Classical's production of Beaumont and Fletcher's 1619 revenge play.

Arts & Books
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s rarely staged 1619 revenge play The Maid’s Tragedy, like Jacobean tragedy more generally, anticipates film noir in both its fixation on female sexuality and its resolutely bleak atmosphere. Hapless hero Amintor (Steve Vanderzee) faces a situation as simple and ferocious as a bear trap: He discovers on his wedding night that his new marriage is a sham, cooked ...
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We’ll never be royals.

Theater
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A satire with a sweet tooth.

Theater
The playwright George Bernard Shaw did
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anti-militarism comedy Arms and the Man, in which Bluntschli, a
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